On the historiography of the language question in post- 1974 Greece Alexandra Patrikiou Panteion University The restoration of democratic and, by the autumn of 1974, parliamentary rule in the wake of the de- mise of the military dictatorship had a significant impact on almost every aspect of Greece’s polit- ical, economic and intellectual life. The so-called Metapolitefsi 1 was a period of tying up loose ends that long predated the establishment of the dic- tatorship: 2 for example, legalising the Communist Party (KKE), which had been outlawed since 1947; ending the burdensome constitutional issue by establishing a parliamentary republic; adopting demotic as the official language (1976); and in- troducing the single-accent system (1982). This period of transitions 3 created the suitable context so as to boost the academic interest on the lan- guage question, which led to the publication of the main canonical texts on that same issue. The works of Alexis Dimaras, Rena Stavridi-Patrikiou and Anna Frangoudaki have undeniably shaped, each in a different way but positively all together, the framework within which the historiography of the language question evolved from the ear- ly years of the Metapolitefsi onwards. 4 The aim of this article is to examine these works as products of their time and to demonstrate how, in a peri- od of transitions and ideological redefinitions, a renewed relation to the past was developed. By commenting on the different interpretations and exposing the main convergences and divergenc- es between these works, one will be able to re- flect on their contributions to historiography and to scholarly thought in general. In addition, later studies that engage with aspects of the frame- work set in these years are covered by this contri- bution, thereby offering an overview of the related historiography of the last 40 years. 5 The language question refers to the diverse and multilayered disputes over which form of the language should be the official state language: